Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24
Jones became a leading and talented

Jones became a leading and talented
senator in after years, and Bartlett Sims
a noted lawyer, long resident II
/ Bastrop county. Captain Brown
bore down the Colorado, crossed
| it 1T the mouth of Sboal creek,
where Austin now stands, secured the
country on Onion creek, the Rio Blanco
! and San Marcos and reached Gonzales
without further adventure"
In 1880, Captain Brown, with three
companions, Basil Durbin, Ben Duncan
and 'English" Tom Williams, defeated a
band of fifty Mexican robbers, on the
Medina, killing five of the number.
During the succeeding year Of 1881, he
had several contests with the Indians be-
tween San Antonio and the Rio Grande.
Having located at Columbia, in 1882,
he was called to the command Of Gar
ing company of about eighty (the largest
company men and boys, who partici-
pated in the bloody battle OF Velaco, at
the mouth Of the BraZJs, on the 26th Of
June, 1882. This engagement has been
Considered one of the best fought and
most skilfuIy managed battles in our
history.
His gaIlaatry and daring on that coca
sion has been for more than fifty years
the theme of praise. Soon afterward we
find him on the field as next friend to
Colonel William I. Austin in the issue
between that gentleman and the chival-
rOus Colonel joan A. Wharton, on the
Brsz0 s-an event in which both OF the
distinguished contestants bore themselves
as men Of courage and honor, and one
always remembered with regret by their
mutual friends.
In 1888 Captain Brown was again in the
west and had several adventures with
both hostile Indians and border MeXi-
cans. His last trip to Mexico was accom-
panied by q bloody episode near San An
tonic, where he defeated q party Of
guerrilla Mexicans during the latter part
of this year.
He died OF Columbia, on the BrsZOs, on
the Goth of July, 1884, and sleeps his last
sleep within a few feet of josiah Il. Bell
and the once famous Captain Bird Lock
hart. His memory is hOnOrably per-
petuated in the name of the beautiful
county Of Brown, which was named in his
honor twenty-five years after his death,
and twenty seven years after his two ex-
petitions into that vicinity.
His life was one akin to the legends of
romance, ard won for him among those
early pioneers of Texas the character Of a
brave, chivalrous, and sagacious border
chief. 1t was often said by old citizens
that he had more contests with the In
dians, and was more generally success
full, than any of the brave pioneer chiefs
of that day.
His heart was warm and generous to a
fault, his habits were sober, his inter
course with others honorable, and he
rarely ever had a personal difficulty with
his fellow man.
The star of adversely and disappoint-
ment often hung over him, and during mis-
adventurous life as a trader calamities
and misfortunes often attended him, and
he frequently lost heavily by fire and
food, as well as from Indian and Mexi-
can robbers.
His only surviving children are Rufus
E Brown, with four sons, recently re-
moved from Kendall county to New Mex
leo, eud Colonel John Henry Brown of Dial
las, Tex, with three daughters and -four
grand children by his daughter, Mrs
Margaret Jones. He also has two grand
daughters in Gonzales county, Mrs. Mary
Clinton Mooney and Mrs. Ann M. Jacks